Synonyms for exacerbates
ex·ac·er·bates

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1. snowballs

   the use of the word "snowball" can also apply to a situation intensifying or accelerating into a bigger situation.

   the small untruth that the boy told snowballed into a huge web of lies.

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "exacerbates":

   aggravates, worsens, exacerbate, heightens, accentuates, deepens, intensifies, increases

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1. Mike Brickner:

   The DHS’s decision to partner with private prisons sends a horrible message about profiteering at the expense of individuals seeking asylum, during ICE detention, these people have been subject to abuse and mistreatment. Incentivizing private companies to detain people for profit only exacerbates our criminal justice system problems. To allow more people to be incarcerated for a profit in Ohio sends our state in the wrong direction.

2. Don Bacon:

   All this talk of impeachment and the 25th Amendment only exacerbates our divide and throws gas on the fire, we need less hyper-partisanship at the moment and stop efforts that will only divide the people of America even more.

3. Duncan Swift:

   The swelling 'piggy-bank' of supplier monies held by supermarkets exacerbates the risk of them making unwarranted deductions which causes suppliers financial distress.

4. Steve Englander:

   One of the new themes in markets is that (quantitative easing) has damaged the banks and that therefore it exacerbates the risk-off environment.

5. Michael Harrison:

   With the kind of violent crime we see here in Baltimore, the number of homicides and shootings, we see people's willingness to use those guns only because they made a conscious decision to carry them unlawfully. This decision now exponentially exacerbates that problem.